SNIP-21: Minor improvements to SNIP-20

This document describes several optional enhancements to the SNIP-20 spec. Contracts that support the existing SNIP-20 standard are still considered compliant, and clients should be written so as to benefit from these features when available, but provide fallbacks for when these features are not available.
The features specified in this document are mostly miscellaneous quality-of-life improvements, aimed at enriching UI integration, and making auditability of accounts easier (provided a viewing key, of course!).
Private Memo
The existing Transfer, TransferFrom, Send, SendFrom, Burn, Mint, and BurnFrom messages MAY also accept a memo field, which is just a regular string. This memo SHOULD be saved in the transaction history of the balances involved in the transaction (from, sender, and receiver) and served as the memo field of items in the responses to the TransferHistory and TransactionHistory (introduced in this document) queries.
Example Transfer message:
{
  "recipient": "secret1xyz",
  "amount": "123000000",
  "memo": "A private message only the sender and recipient can see"
}
Example TransferHistory response:
{
  "transfer_history": {
    "txs": [
      {
        "id": 123,
        "from": "secret1xyz",
        "sender": "secret1xyz",
        "receiver": "secret1xyz",
        "coins": {
          "denom": "FOOBAR",
          "amount": "123000000"
        },
        "memo": "Second private message"
      },
      {
        "id": 123,
        "from": "secret1xyz",
        "sender": "secret1xyz",
        "receiver": "secret1xyz",
        "coins": {
          "denom": "FOOBAR",
          "amount": "123000000"
        },
        "memo": "First private message"
      }
    ]
  }
}
Receiver Interface
When sending a Receive callback as part of a Send or SendFrom transaction, The Receive message SHOULD contain the same memo that was supplied in the original message.
For example sending this Send message:
{
  "send": {
    "recipient": "secret1xyz",
    "amount": "123000000",
    "msg": "some base64 data here",
    "memo": "My super secret memo"
  }
}
would send this callback to the recipient contract:
{
  "receive": {
    "sender": "secret1xyz",
    "from": "secret1xyz",
    "amount": "123000000",
    "msg": "some base64 data here",
    "memo": "My super secret memo"
  }
}
Transfer History
Total Transfer Count
The TransferHistory query MAY return an additional field total which is a 64 bit JSON integer representing the total count of transfer events registered in the history of the balance being queried.
The absence of this feature makes presenting good paging interfaces very hard for user interfaces. There's no way of knowing how many pages there are in the history without first fetching all the registered transfers and seeing when we get an empty page. With this feature, if the UI wants to display 10 transfers at a time, the first query to TransferHistory will return the 10 latest transfers, and the UI will know it can offer (total / 10) + 1 pages that can be jumped to.
Example TransferHistory response:
{
  "transfer_history": {
    "total": 200,
    "txs": [
      {
        "id": 123,
        "from": "secret1xyz",
        "sender": "secret1xyz",
        "receiver": "secret1xyz",
        "coins": {
          "denom": "FOOBAR",
          "amount": "123000000"
        }
      },
      {
        "id": 123,
        "from": "secret1xyz",
        "sender": "secret1xyz",
        "receiver": "secret1xyz",
        "coins": {
          "denom": "FOOBAR",
          "amount": "123000000"
        }
      }
    ]
  }
}
Block Time and Height
The items returned by the TransferHistory query MAY contain additional fields called block_time and block_height. These two fields MUST correspond to the block time and block height of the block that included the transaction that recorded the transfer being reported. The block time is in Unix time.
Example TransferHistory response:
{
  "transfer_history": {
    "txs": [
      {
        "id": 123,
        "from": "secret1xyz",
        "sender": "secret1xyz",
        "receiver": "secret1xyz",
        "coins": {
          "denom": "FOOBAR",
          "amount": "123000000"
        },
        "block_time": 12006,
        "block_height": 101
      },
      {
        "id": 123,
        "from": "secret1xyz",
        "sender": "secret1xyz",
        "receiver": "secret1xyz",
        "coins": {
          "denom": "FOOBAR",
          "amount": "123000000"
        },
        "block_time": 12000,
        "block_height": 100
      }
    ]
  }
}
Transaction History
The original TransferHistory query paints an incomplete picture of users' interactions with the token. It only records operations performed through Transfer, TransferFrom, Send, and SendFrom, while the other operations which move funds around - Mint, Burn, Deposit, Withdraw etc. are not recorded and can not be easily tracked by users after the fact.
The following is the specification of the new TransactionHistory query, which aims to provide a complete description of the history of users' balances.
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This query MUST be authenticated.
This query SHOULD return a list of json objects describing the changes to the balance of the querying address, in newest-first order. The user may optionally specify a limit on the amount of information returned by paging the available items.
The response should look as described below.
The total field is REQUIRED (unlike as in TransferHistory where it is missing for legacy reasons) and must equal to the number of recorded transactions related to the querying account.
The id field is optional, and may be used by contracts that choose to populate it.
The memo field may be missing or null, but if present it MUST be the memo that was attached to the message sent by the user in the described transaction.
The block_time and block_height MUST be the same as the fields of the same name described above in Block Time and Height.
More details are described below.
Request
Name
Type
Description
optional
key
string
The viewing key
no
address
string
Addresses SHOULD be a valid bech32 address, but contracts may use a different naming scheme as well
no
page_size
number
Number of transactions to return, starting from the latest. i.e. n=1 will return only the latest transaction
no
page
number
This defaults to 0. Specifying a positive number will skip page * page_size txs from the start.
yes
Response
The action field of each transaction under txs is an object, which is one of the variants of TxAction.
{
  "transaction_history": {
    "total": 200,
    "txs": [
      {
        "id": "optional ID",
        "block_time": 12000,
        "block_height": 100,
        "coins": {
          "denom": "coin denomination/name",
          "amount": "Uint128"
        },
        "memo": "private message",
        "action": {}
      },
      { "...": "..." }
    ]
  }
}
TxAction has the following variants:
Transfer - represents transactions triggered by Transfer, TransferFrom, Send, and SendFrom. The fields in this object correspond to the fields described in TransferHistory.
from - The address from which funds were moved.
sender - The address which performed the operation.
recipient - The address to which funds were moved.
from and sender will differ in events created by the *From messages, which use allowance from a third from address to perform the operation.
{
  "transfer": {
    "from": "secret1xyz",
    "sender": "secret1xyz",
    "recipient": "secret1xyz"
  }
}
Mint - represents transactions triggered by Mint. The minter field shows the address of the minter which created the tokens, and the recipient field shows the address of the account that received the tokens. This item will show up in both the minter's and recipient's histories.
{
  "mint": {
    "minter": "secret1xyz",
    "recipient": "secret1xyz"
  }
}
Burn - represents transactions triggered by Burn.
burner - The address that performed the burn.
owner - The address whose funds were burned.
This item will show up in both the burner's and owner's histories. burner and owner will differ in events created by BurnFrom,
{
  "burn": {
    "burner": "secret1xyz",
    "owner": "secret1xyz"
  }
}
Deposit - represents a Deposit operation, where native tokens were deposited to the contract for the address of the querier.
{
  "deposit": {}
}
Redeem - represents a Redeem operation, where native tokens were withdrawn from the account of the address of the querier.
{
  "redeem": {}
}
Name	Type	Description	optional
key	string	The viewing key	no
address	string	Addresses SHOULD be a valid bech32 address, but contracts may use a different naming scheme as well	no
page_size	number	Number of transactions to return, starting from the latest. i.e. n=1 will return only the latest transaction	no
page	number	This defaults to 0. Specifying a positive number will skip `page * page_size` txs from the start.	yes
SNIP-20 Spec: Private, Fungible Tokens
SNIP-22: Batch Operations for SNIP-20 Contracts
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